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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by m3kw9 on Friday March 23, 2018 @10:02PM (#16664335)
It may not look like it, but this is equivalent to accidentally pressing a missle button and it hit the country on the other side.
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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by John_KZ on Friday March 23, 2018 @11:10PM (#16664586)
Yeah, Americans seem pretty indifferent on such issues, probably because they oppress others too well and don't get to hear such things themselves.

What if a major French company lists the Falklands under Argentina? What if open street map deletes Israel? What if Airbus "likes" a tweet from a middle eastern man that calls for the complete removal of US forces from Iraq? Things like that matter, and really piss off the involved parties, especially when they're at least technically correct (as in the case of Tibet being autonomous, but de-facto part of China).

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by jodrellblank on Sunday March 25, 2018 @09:36AM (#16672102)
What if a major French company lists the Falklands under Argentina?

You'd get a reddit "BritishProblems" grumpy post about it?

https://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/comments/2emlt0/i_w...

https://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/search?q=country+li...

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by tinza123 on Saturday March 24, 2018 @02:57AM (#16665253)
totally agree. All that hypocrisy caused by ignorance. They just don't understand how sensitive such matters are before they even try. Sad!
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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by nasredin on Saturday March 24, 2018 @06:59AM (#16665976)
>>It may not look like it, but this is equivalent to accidentally pressing a missle button and it hit the country on the other side.

TBH I expected somebody to Godwin this whole thing, but the quality of people commenting on HN is just too damn high.

Guess your comment is as close as we gonna get.

Never thought the like button of one tweet can have such devastating consequences.

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by functioningCog on Friday March 23, 2018 @10:18PM (#16664389)
...or accidentally sending a missile warning to Hawaii.
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